Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-06
OHI0'S LABOR PARTY.
THE GREENBACKERS STEP IN AND HELP
THE LABOR MEN
To Fix Up a Tckst-Ths Rag Baby RsSurectsd
in all Its Pristine GlOry-The Convention
Completes It's Work and NOminatss a
Full Ticket-The Platform.

COLUMBUS, o., July 5.-The State Con-
vention of the Union Labor party compile
ted its labors at noon to-day and adjourn
ed until o'clock this afternoon to listen
to a speech by Gen. Weaver.
The convention this moaning was q har-
monious one, and although Hamilton coun-
ty had a majority Of the delegates present.
they asked for no place on the ticket; their
watch-word was Harmony"
All the nominations except that Of Mem
Der of the Board of Public Works, were
unanimous, and made amidst considerable
cheering. The first nominee appeared to
catch the delegates and all Others with
drew, leaving but one name before the con-
vention. The Greenback sentiment ruled
the convention and the nomination of Hon.
John Seitz, of Seneca county, radical
Greenbacker, for Governor, was bid for
the Greenback vote, and shows plainly that
the rag baby" will soon be revived by the
Union Labor party Of Ohio.
For Lieutenant Governor L. r. McDon-
aid, of Springfield, was nominated; Su-
rpreme Judge, long term, Timothy O'COn-
ner, of Cincinnati; short term, c. W..
Tuttle, of Lake; Auditor of State, o. j.
Sutton, of Summit; Treasurer, G. nj.
Hunter, of Stark; Attorney General, Will
liam Baker, of Licking; Board of Public
Works, Carl A. Reader of Cuyahoga.
The following is the substance OF the
platform:
The delegates of TIE Union Labor party
of the State Of Ohio in convention assem-
bled, regard our industrial and political
situation with grave alarm. The natural
agencies of production and distribution are
seized by syndicates Of speculators and
gamblers, to whom every productive in
dustry in the land is compelled to pay
tribute. Laws are enacted and admins
tered in the special interest Of cOmbina-
tions of corporations of aggregated wealth
to the detriment Of both producer and con-
sumer.. The entire machinery Of the two
dominant parties is manipulated by the
Doodle of monopoly, thus leaving the
masses of their followers powerless to re-
form existing evils.
Believing that it is the right, the duty,
of the tOiling masses to cast aside all past
party differences, and associate themselves
together for the purpose of securing to the
tOiling producer the full fruits of their toll
aud make industrial worth the true stand
ard of greatness, we, therefore endorse the
platform of the Union Labor Party pro-
mulgated at Cincinnati on February 22d,
1887.
And we further demand at the hands of
the State that the fee system he abolished
and that official salaries shall he cOmmen-
surate with service performed; that the
laws against the employment of bribery,
force, or intimidation tn secure nOmina-
tiOns ur elections to Office, be Tigidly en-
forced and that free drinks or lunch shall
he declared bribery by statute; that the
charters of all corporations which have vio-
lated the law under which they were
granted be revoked; that all mort.
cages on real estate be taxed
and corresponding exemption of
the mOrtgager; that all school
books used in the common schools be
printed by the State and furnished at cost
that all banks shall he required to give Sc
curity to the State to the average amount
OF their deposits; that speculation i'll the
nccessaries of life, "cornering" the market
and dealing in margins" and futures are
ruinOuS to legitimate business, highly de-
mOralizing, and we denounce the courts OF
Ohio for failing to enforce the laws declar-
ing such acts criminal offenses; that all
discrimination by employers against lawful
associations of employees to secure their
rights violate the constitutional right OF
the citizen and shall be declared felony
that the ratio of assessing railroad corpora
tiOns be based upon the capitalization as
shown on the books of the State Railroad
Commissioner, and that the assessment
shall be the same as on other property in
proportion to capitalization, or estimated
salable value, and that the same principle
apply to banks and all other business cor
pOratiOns.